Tagged: Lance Swigart

Listen to invaluable tips from local gardener, Lance Swigart. Lance  joins Donna and Patrick on Monday mornings through the growing season to share what's important in the garden this week.

May 6 - signs of warming weather, grasshoppers, timing of planting veggies, stone fruit pollination, soil preparation and compost.

May 13 - Helping plants recover from frost, mallow/button weed roots, potatoes, flea beetles, signs of frost danger over and bean tips.

Today Lance spoke about his planting schedule for the coming week :

Onions (by seed):  He likes Yellow Spanish, Newberger and Red Man onions - all good storage onions

Seed potatoes - planting potatoes for seed next year.  grows them like regular potatoes but picks the medium size taters for seed - choosing those that are the furthest and deepest from the stalk.  He also recommends not washing or cleaning the seed potatoes to prevent any kind of damage to skin = store in the state that they come out of the ground with.